U.S.News & World Report

“There are a handful of significant political forces pushing against one another, the political equivalent of tectonic plates,” writes Dartmouth’s Charles Wheelan ’88. He suggests three possiblilities that could cause a political earthquake.

The Washington Post

Members of the Class of 2021 reached out to students at the University of Virginia to offer support in the wake of the violence that erupted last weekend in Charlottesville, Va., at a protest over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee.

VQR

“The second heart attack didn’t begin until evening,” writes Professor Jeff Sharlet in an essay on his recovery. “By then I was in the hospital. I would have known what was happening even if I hadn’t been. It was obvious. I was dying.”